The TEDxWomen stages in New York and Los Angeles will be connected and the speaker sessions simulcast to both locations so that attendees can experience an extraordinary program of speakers from both coasts. And of course, the dialogue will continue long after the conclusion of the conference, as the talks get released to the world online.

TEDxWomen will stream live from our stages to a global network of TEDxWomen events happening around the globe.

The audience in New York and Los Angeles is invitation-only, but you can organize your own TEDxWomen event or attend one in your area.

Yesterday I attended TEDxWomen in NYC. It was an amazing event, with one speaker better than another. There were four main themes – Resilience, Relationships, Rebirth and Re-imagine. Part one of the series will focus on the speakers of the Resilience section.

The third segment of the TEDxWomen conference held December 1, 2011 at the Paley Center for Media in both New York City and Los Angeles was ReBirth.This very enlightening segment was curated and hosted by Jane Fonda.

ReBirth - How extended health, longevity, and an untapped potential is redefining women in their third act.

The underlying tone of all the conversations was transmitting all this collective knowledge to the future generation of women which lies in our girls. How can they, through our life-learning process and adequate education, receive this information now to be change-agents and live with a belief of a field of endless opportunities for them?

That future is already here, if we can judge by the three stunningly brilliant Google Global Science Fair champions who shared with us their winning projects. Lisa Ling hosted the Re-Imagine sessions from L.A. and was obviously excited to introduce these teens (Shree Bose, Naomi Shah, and Lauren Hodge) who had the whole Los Angeles room of intellectual women laughing in positive disbelief and in awe of their brilliance and confidence in presenting their award-winning ideas.

The end of a TED Conference also coincides with a distinct sense of overload. How can one possibly process all that was explored, argued, sung in the last ten hours–especially from those outrageously brilliant Google girls!?

Please stay tuned in the next couple of weeks as we publish the various talks and keep the conversation alive. As our surprise speaker, Barbra Streisand, has said, “The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer.”

Kohestani and Navarette were part of an impressive session called ReImagine hosted by Journalist Lisa Ling. The session also included the three-first place winners of the Google Science Fair and the Founder and CEO of TeachAIDS. Together they prompted attendees to imagine a life outside normal bounds and customs.

Kohestani was just 9-years old when the Taliban took over in Afghanistan. She couldn’t go to school, read books, or study. “I never thought I would want school over any gifts,” she said. When she discovered soccer she was ridiculed and humiliated over and over again. It just made her stronger. So strong she went on to become the captain of the first Afghanistan women’s national soccer team. Now she’s a college student in New Jersey speaking out for girls around the world. She asked the audience to think about what our freedom means to us and challenged us to go out and help someone attain their freedom.

Tan Le is a technology entrepreneur, business executive and sought-after speaker. She is founder and CEO of Emotiv Lifesciences, a bioinformatics company that advances understanding of the human brain and identifies biomarkers for mental and other neurological conditions using electroencephalography (EEG). She is pursuing the dream of performing inexpensive and widespread brain function screening to catch early signs of autism, epilepsy, learning disabilities, ADHD, and other conditions. In 2003, Tan cofounded Emotiv, a neuroengineering company that has developed a breakthrough interface technology for digital media taking inputs directly from the brain, transforming human interaction with computers. Emotiv has a footprint in over ninety countries and is recognized as a pioneering world leader in the field.

TEDxNASAJSCWomen is an independently organized event, centered around the national TEDxWomen forum that is taking place in New York and Los Angeles. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is most well known for its annual conference that brings together leading thinkers and doers to share their passion for big ideas.

It’s awe inspiring to think about all the women and men joining us all across the world for today’s TEDxWomen. There are over 100 events on every continent, in every time zone, enabling thousands of people to gather in community and experience the TED talks taking place in New York and Los Angeles, as well as their own local TED talks. It is the first bi-costal, global TEDx event in history. We are amazed by the energy of all of our TEDx organizers and their dynamic, diverse communities.

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